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Confessions Of A Mafia Hitman | Cooperation, Mob Beefs, & Making Millions
Mon, 21 Apr 2025
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Chapter 1: What was Dominick Cicale's first murder experience?
If I can get the gun, I have a silencer. We'll go in, in the restaurant. We'll leave him there. They asked me if I knew George. I said, yeah, he's my neighbor. I didn't lie to them. I just didn't tell them I killed him. My first bid went away for a murder in the state of Florida. There was a guy, George Keough, who was a drug dealer in Florida.
Friends of mine, they came down from New York on the run. They just robbed a big drug dealer in New York. So when they came down, they're like, Dom, we need money. Do you have any scores? So I knew of this drug dealer, so I set them up to go rob him. They robbed the guy. They got away with it. Nobody got hurt. And right afterwards, the guy, George Keogh, calls me up.
I know you had something to do with it. I got robbed. I'm like, what are you talking about? You know, I'm not admitting anything. I know it was you. I know it was you. It wasn't me. Going back and forth. So maybe about four months later. I happened to move. I didn't even realize it. I moved in his complex, and I forgot that that's where he lived.
In Florida? In Florida, in Pompano. So you moved from New York here.
Yeah, I was living in Florida. I was in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Then from there, I went to Pompano. When I went to Pompano, it was the same complex where this drug dealer lived, and I didn't even realize it. This is the guy we robbed four months prior. One night in the house, I get a knock on the door. I look out. It's George. I'm like, oh, shoot. Then it dawned on me.
I'm like, I knew the complex looked familiar, but I just didn't put two and two together. I run upstairs. I get a gun. Go downstairs, open up the door, and I have the gun ready. I'm like, what's up, George? And he's drunk, wasted. And I see he has his shirt open. He has two pistols. I'm like, George, listen, it's late. You know, I live here. Like, let's just tabletop this till tomorrow.
Get some sleep. I'm not going anywhere. And we'll discuss it. He said, all right. He leaves. I go back upstairs next day. I see him. I said, listen, I didn't rob you. I had nothing to do with it. But let's do this. You know I have connections in New York. I know you have connections down here in Florida for drugs. We'll get drugs. We'll bring them up there. We'll flip them out.
And whatever you feel you're owed, we'll take that off the top. I said, that's fair.
It's the best scenario. Yeah, that's the best result you're going to get.
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Chapter 2: How did a robbery lead to a deadly confrontation?
No, that's okay. So with that... I go back to the motel. Now I knock on the door. For some reason, I said, let me put the silencer on the gun. I just had a sick feeling. I put the silencer on. Who opens up the door? It's George. So once he opened up the door, the chain was on. He, oh, it's you. Okay. He unlocks it, opens it. I pushed him back and I put the gun up to him.
And right away, Ernie grabs him. George always had two guns on him. Takes his two guns off. And he's sitting on the bed. I have no money. I have no money. And I'm like, this is not about money, George. You wanted to kill me? No. What are you talking about? I would never. I thought we were friends. Exactly. So, I mean, we went back and forth a little bit.
All of a sudden, his last words were, now he's on the bed, on the edge of the bed. He's like, I have to pee. I have to pee. He gets up and runs for the door. I just turned around and I hit him in the back of the head. But as he's running forward, as soon as the bullet hit the back of his head, he stopped and his whole body jerked backwards.
So I probably hit a nerve or something, came backwards, tumbled over, he's on the floor, just blood's coming out. And that was it. We put him up in the bed. We all go downstairs because now we're going to go get cleaning supplies and everything to clean up the room. I go back upstairs, put another one in his head to make sure he's dead. And then that was it. We went back.
I thought you were going to say he was gone.
No.
He was gone, all right, but not in that sense, gone. We came back. We cleaned up the room, took the body. We were on the third floor. So it was all wrapped up, down the steps with the body. That doesn't look suspicious at all. In the trunk of the car. It was about maybe 2.30, 3 in the morning. So it was pretty quiet. Okay.
So put him in the trunk of the car, drove out to Palm Beach County and went west. And I found a canal. We dumped them in the canal. They wound up finding them a month later. Oh.
Yeah. Shouldn't you go to the Everglades?
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Chapter 3: What happened when George confronted Dominick?
Yeah, you're doing eight and a half years, maybe some halfway house, maybe six months halfway. Almost nine years. You lose some game time? Oh, yes. You weren't a good enemy?
I was having my fun, put it that way. Female correction officers. I was just, listen, I was young, well, my 20s, so.
So you said you were about to tell me about appeals and.
Oh, as I'm fighting the case, come to find out now I'm getting all the information, digging into the case. My co-defendant who was on that case cooperated. They didn't use him at trial against me. So now I'm pulling up all the paperwork. I'm looking. He told the government, as soon as I got out of the car, I told him he's a cop. Don't deal with him. That Dominic wasn't the supplier.
It was Dominic's drugs. What happened was I picked up white and it was garbage. I knew. So I gave it to him. I said, if you could get rid of it, get rid of it. Just so happens he's selling it to an agent. When the agent said, oh, this is great stuff. I love it. I listened. I said, cop, it's not good stuff. It's garbage. It was only 63% pure. So it was basically, it was garbage.
And so as I'm fighting the case, I'm looking, they never gave me that information.
Right. So there's exculpatory evidence. There's grounds for an appeal.
Went back on the 2255. And the judge, they just denied it. Rubber stamped it. I was so mad. I'm like, wow, that's dirty. They never even gave me that Brady information for my trial. Right. Because if I have the trial, now I call him as a witness. He's a cooperator. What's he going to say? I didn't know the extent of a cooperation at that time.
No, I wound up doing 10 years for a crime I didn't commit.
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Chapter 4: How did Dominick deal with the murder aftermath?
Sure. He didn't kidnap his son.
No. He just got word that. Yeah, what happened was. My father was a drug addict. This guy was a drug addict. They all would stay together. They're doing drugs one night. They're all partying. They're outside. Vinny's son passes by in a car. So the guy passes a comment. Imagine if we kidnapped him, how much money we could get. He had no intentions of kidnapping him. Right.
But Vinny felt if somebody makes that statement, I'm going to make a statement. I'm going to kill him. Because the next person that even thinks about it will think twice. Yeah, yeah.
You don't know who's going to take it too far.
Exactly. And the neighborhoods, everybody speaks. Everybody knows what's going on. So we set out to kill him. We set up a hit team. And Vinny and I jumped out of the car. We started blasting him. And that was it. Left him in the street.
and everybody went their separate ways but that was i was only out two months i'm killing somebody for the family right that's how loyal i was so i mean does that get investigated or is this just some guy some random guy got shot and it it just it was investigated but they had it was from what i knew there was no witnesses it happened.
It was dark out at night by the service road of the highway in frog's neck. Um, so it was a quiet area. The guy went out to walk his dog and, um, We left them there in the street.
So you're still running your kind of construction company. But what else are you doing to make money?
Well, at that time, I'm working in Local 7. I'm living in Jersey at that time. Local 7 is what? It's a tile, marble, and terrazzo union. Union, okay. Union. Union, that is.
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